Continue to develop my professional writing skills, expand into the media of film, learn the screenwriting business from inside the industry, and share my experience with students.

QUALIFICATIONS

My qualifications include my life experiences and my dedication to the art and craft of writing. But the more I experience and learn, the more the words of Nobel Laureate and my teacher
Isaac Bashevis Singer come back to me: “There is no great art in confusing your audience.” Or as my Presbyterian/Engineer father always said; “KISS--keep it simple, stupid.”

1997-2000 Writer for the
Maritime Association of the Port of New York & New Jersey. As a member of the US Disabled Sailing Team, I was supported by the MAPNY/NY to compete in the United States and Overseas. I wrote a monthly installment reporting my campaign to represent the United States in the 2000 Paralympic Games in Sydney.

Professional Writing 1990:Miami Herald’s “Life is Stranger than Fiction Contest,” Guns and Butter--first runner-up. 1991: “Shake-a-Leg Sailor” wins the International Television Association Region XIII “Golden Palm Award,” appears on the NBC Today Show, and appears internationally on the GET WET show.

Community Service 1990-1997: founding member and first president of Shake-a-Leg Miami, a community sailing program for the disabled, their families and their friends. 1992: awarded the “Dean Rose Exemplary Individual Award.” 1997 “Heroic Inspiration Award”; the Maritime Association of the Port of NY/NJ, World Trade Center/Window on the World.